At 11:31 AM 22/04/2003 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>If anything I'd expect to see
>padding added on the right.
Yep. Put it down to a typo/late night. Padding to right is the norm with
varbit.
> > Doesn't seem too unreasonable to support varbit<->numeric conversions.
At least in 7.3.2 we can't cast int to varbit. Worse still (and maybe I am
missing something):
# select cast(8 as bit(10)); bit
------------ 0000000000
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